Equal Before the Law

While Chris Graybeing has been working to deprive the undeserving of legal aid, the Chancellor has invested some of the Treasury's ever-diminishing tax receipts in another, equally worthy enterprise. The Euro-wogs have conceived some sort of delusional foreign idea that bankers and other real people should take on some of the financial burden which Osborne is trying to restrict to the broad and shirking shoulders of those who do not habitually vote Conservative. There are even whispers that the size of a person's take-home pay packet might, in a rationally operating economy, be somehow related to whether or not that person has recently helped to engineer a global recession. Bankers have dodged the bonus cap by increasing their salaries, leading the governor of the Bank of England to suggest "some form of clawback", provided it wasn't the nasty, left-wing form of clawback known as tax, and provided it was used to pay fines so that governments would have more money to throw at corporations, rather than being used to give the proles free schools and hospitals at real people's expense.